On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 12:25:16PM -0500, James Kosin wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > | The subject line is for those who remember Dumbo and the line "I > | guess I will have seen everything when I see an elephant fly". > | > | Well Grub has shown me something I have never seen before so I need > | help. > | > | We have 7 identical machines bought at the same time. They are the > | Dwarf machines. I have successfully got Dwarf1 and Dwarf7 up and > | going with FC2. > | > | This morning I loaded exactly the same software through untarring > | an image of Dwarf7 on Dwarf2, 3 and 4. I changed the entries in the > | hosts, network and ifcfg-eth0 files. I changed the grub.conf so it > | looks like the ones that work. I will include a copy below. When I > | run grub-install the all three machines return with the error: the > | file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly. > | > | I copied the whole grub directory from a working machine and got > | the same error. On another machine I zeroed the boot part of the > | MBR and got the same error from grub-install. I am clueless. Any > | help would be appreciated. > | > | ============== grub.conf file ========================= > | > | # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to > | rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You do not > | have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and > | initrd paths are relative to /, eg. # root (hd0,3) # > | kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda4 # initrd > | /boot/initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/hda default=0 timeout=20 > | splashimage=(hd0,2)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Fedora Core > | (2.6.9-1.11_FC2smp) root (hd0,2) kernel > | /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.11_FC2smp ro root=/dev/sda3 initrd > | /boot/initrd-2.6.9-1.11_FC2smp.img > | > | > | title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.6_FC2) root (hd0,2) kernel > | /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.6_FC2 ro root=/dev/sda3 initrd > | /boot/initrd-2.6.9-1.6_FC2.img > | > | #title WinXP # rootnoverify (hd0,0) # chainloader +1 > | > I hope you remembered to unmount all file systems before doing the tar > that made a copy and unmounted all file systems before unbarring to > the new machines. > > Some files do not copy correctly when you just do a tar of the whole > machine. You have to be careful. The best thing to do in this case > was to tar the individual partitions from the original machine, maybe > using the rescue CD to boot from. > > James I appreciate the response but in one case I ftp-ed the grub directory from a working machine. Would that not copy correctly? -- ======================================================================= Trouble strikes in series of threes, but when working around the house the next job after a series of three is not the fourth job -- it's the start of a brand new series of three. ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
